Thursday, 3 February 2011

Question Time Compo

No news on who's on it this week.

So..into the void,unprepared..

YOU choose what you think the panel may be asked by the audience.YOU put those guess questions into the comments... points are awarded for accuracy, style, exclusivity, humour and sometimes just randomly.

Winner gets to take Sally Bercow up on her Evening Standard reader's offer.

BQ chooses1.Egypt. Should Britain support the protesters?2. New google crime maps. Spot the chaviest house in your county.3. Save the trees! Save the trees! kill a beaver!4. Australia flooding..USA under snow..is the evidence for climate change overwhelming? -Well, yes.5. Price of footballers at Liverpool vs Liverpool city council's cuts and threats.

1. Tories back Egpytian dictators+ Nick Clegg is 'excited', he is a right prick isn't he?2. Liverpool Council rightly rejects the big society3. Osborne has caused a double dip4. Football transfers, sick example of capitalism5. Paxman to replace dumbleby or will it go to Connie Huq?

Should the Coalition government stop pussy-footing about and tell us plainly that it's not there will be no general election (and general say) for the next five years, it's there will be no further say ever (if they can help it)?

Should towns and cities whose economic purpose has now been extinguished be abandoned with only skeletal links and services?

Is it time for universities to determine the criteria they wish to use for awarding places and abandon A-levels, or lack of them, as being indicative of anything interesting at all?

Can street protests seriously damage your health (and prospects)?

And for light relief:

Why can the Danes build a six lane motorway, plus rail link, undersea tunnel to Germany when England has no road link at all to the continent of Europe? (or should that be the continent has no link to England?)

1. Government cuts & their effect on grants that council grants give.2. Egypt - the violence and the effect that it will have on Middle East "peace"3. Sale of woodland to the highest bidder and probable loss of "right to roam"4. Australia, Queensland flooding, is just a one off or is it global warming.5. How long will the government split and what will happen to the LibDems, will they disappear with out trace

1. Government cuts & their effect on grants that council grants give.2. Egypt - the violence and the effect that it will have on Middle East "peace"3. Sale of woodland to the highest bidder and probable loss of "right to roam"4. Australia, Queensland flooding, is just a one off or is it global warming.5. How long will the government split and what will happen to the LibDems, will they disappear with out trace

On the panel tonight: Damian Green MP, Andy Burnham MP, Melanie Phillips, Clare Short and Noreena Hertz (economist who also doubles up for kids parties it seems with the happily titled The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and The Death of Democracy!)

By my count that's 1.5 right wingers to 1 left winger to 2 nutjobs.

'Order order, the nutjobs have it, the nutjobs have it'. Mad Mel's good for the wind up though.

1. Egypt. Something suitably racist/alarmist about Muslim extremists taking over. Possibly framed as good news by Melanie Phillips so that terrorists don't have to come here to get the vote once they are convicted of crimes.

2. Climate change. Go on Melanie. Tell us its all a conspiracy. Show us once again just how horribly wrong and annoying you can be.

3. What did we make of the Chilcot Inquiry now its finished? Expect to see yet another embarrassing display from Claire Short attempting to defend her position.

4. Football and footballers salaries. Because thats all we're really interested in. That and who Jordan is going to shack up with next.

blimey! This is the first one I've watched in a while and its toenail pulling awful! I now know why I just use Bill's rather good reviews than suffer this.

who is the awful voiced preachey 'economist'? she certainly doesn't understand computers - did she really say that "cyber terrorism will make govt building falls down?!?" or did I dream it? I'm not sure her grasp of economics is an awful lot better.

Q1. Should we be worried about Egypt?Claire equivocates.Mad Mel IS worried, re the Muslim Brotherhood.{appointment THB scores a bonus point 20 seconds in!}Norrena Hertz has taken over the chair. Where's Dimbleby!! She tends to side with Mel. Audience man seems to think we {the west}have a lot of power in Egypt to choose the leader. We don't.Andy B. states the obvious..lets hope it all turns out all right.Damien Green. {CS shoots herself over supplying aid to evil regimes. She was minister for overseas aid!}Mel gets a good hit in at the end.{though she says Hitler was elected. Except he wasn't. A coalition formed.}

Claire says the Yanks pull the strings of the Egyptian military..1.5bn in aid. {but its aid to buy their weapons and to not attack Israel.}

Q2. The Trees! {biggest round of applause ever! Don't know why the coalition blundered into this. Noreena talks bollocks, but bollocks that people believe.No more picnics.DG tells it as it is, but its an emotive subject DG. No one will listen. Drop the proposal, its just not worth it.Its an easy one for AB to do his heart on sleeve act, and he does. And does it well too.

Q4 can't do big society in Liverpool DG is right. its a political gesture.CS is on Big Soc side. that's a big surprise.Mel says 'what is the society?'Noreena is very lefty. Is it her fiancée, the controller of BBC1 colouring her views a pinky-yellowy colour?

Audience was quite balanced for cumbria. Excecept the last one who was a first rate planted knob.'The dictatorship of Cameron'

haha !! In an effort to find out actually who she is, I went to the esteemed wikipedia for her biog...

it currently starts of "Prof. Noreena Hertz (born September 24, 1967, London) is an English economist, author and campaigner and bloody irritating woman known for her disastrous appearance on Question Time helped by her nepotistic engagement to Danny Cohen. She is alledgedly an expert on economic globalisation."

Yes - Dimbleby is letting the panellists run on too long. Not cutting them short as he used to. So much so that they actually end up repeating themselves and letting the discussion go stale and boring :(

@B.Q. Thank you for your kind award but my diary is rather full lately, 2 nights is simply out of the question so I will put your prizes on ebay and donate the money to a charity for retired hookers.

@Miss CD. Well spotted - we can't have such sloppy slip-ups slid past us by the judge. He must be made to realise that it is a serious business, running, judging (and competing simultaneously) in a well publicised and supported international competition!